Dolly Parton Talks About Supportg Her Gay Fans – The Hollywood Reporter

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DOLLY PARTON ON HOW SHE'S HELPED HER GAY FAY MEMBERS COME OUT: 'YOU DON'T NEED TO LIVE YOUR LIFE DARKNS'

The 68-year-old sger and actrs has set herself apart om her untry mic brethren wh her unabashedly progrsive views on gay rights. * dolly parton gay rights *

Dolly knows the folly of antigay judgment.

" Though the lyrics wouldn't que f 2018, they were very progrsive back then: "Some are preachers / some are gay / some are addicts, dnks and strays / But not a one is turned away when 's fay. Dolly rpond swiftly to the cint and the ntroversy that followed: "I am tly sorry for the hurt or embarrassment regardg the gay and lbian t-shirt cint at Dollywood's Splash Country recently.

DOLLY PARTON BSH OFF RUMORS ABOUT HER SEXUALY AGA: 'I'M NOT GAY'

The sger has the polil talent to take stands – on gay rights, or child leracy – whout losg her nservative heartland fans * dolly parton gay rights *

Everyone knows of my personal support of the gay and lbian muny. A revealg 2016 terview wh The New York Tim featured Dolly once aga speakg warmly of her gay fanbase ("I have a huge gay followg, and I'm proud of them.

She has also lled out Christians for judgg gay people, sayg: “If you’re gay, you’re gay. Parton’s outspoken support for the LGBTQ+ muny n first be seen way back 1991 on the album Eagle When She Fli, which featur the song Fay, wh s lyrics: “Some are preachers, some are gay, some are addicts, dnks and strays. Country mic legend Dolly Parton -- who has long been an in for the gay muny -- is llg out her fellow Christians who are tolerant of the LGBT muny.

DOLLY PARTON: GAYS 'SHOULD SUFFER JT LIKE HETEROSEXUALS'

"Most of the gays I know jt want to make the world a more betiful place like I do," Parton said the terview" emprop="scriptn * dolly parton gay rights *

Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else, " she 68-year-old sger and actrs has set herself apart om her untry mic brethren wh her unabashedly progrsive views on not jt gay rights but genr equaly too. Earlier this year, she clared her support for gay marriage, jokg that "they should suffer jt like heterosexuals. ""I didn’t know any gay people my childhood.

I do have a lot of gays my fay now, but some will never e out, " the sger told Bra's Event magaze April. She had prevly penned the Osr-nomated theme song for the transgenr-themed film "Transameri" and July she previewed a track lled "Jt a Wee B Gay" which is mored to be a part of handful of pro-gay dance songs.

She has, ’s claimed, an equally strong fanbase the Tmpian “Rt Belt” as among the gay clubbers of New York Cy, to pick two of Ameri’s polarised London vis to promote a new rock-fluenced double album and a book is provg jt how broad that Parton cultural spectm is. It’s somethg she is practised at, balancg her longstandg support for gay rights wh her tradnal relig nvictns.

DOLLY PARTON'S DOLLYWOOD CHARGED WH GAY DISCRIMATN [USA]

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Dolly Parton on How She's Helped Her Gay Fay Members Come Out: 'You Don't Need to Live Your Life Darkns'.

"Most of the gays I know jt want to make the world a more betiful place like I do, " Parton said the terview. Growg up the Great Smoky Mountas of Tennsee, Parton said her first troductn to the gay muny was unknowgly through her fay. “In my early days we did not know [what gay was].

DOLLY PARTON ON GAY RUMORS, LOSG A DRAG QUEEN LOOK-ALIKE CONTT AND NEW MEMOIR

In an exclive terview wh "Nightle," Parton got real about her love life, cludg those mors that she is secretly gay -- she said she has even been threatened for supportg gay rights -- as well as talked about losg a drag queen look-alike ntt, buildg a multiln-dollar entertament empire and her humble childhood. * dolly parton gay rights *

“Later on, I did fd out I have many gays and lbians my own fay. “I have a huge gay and lbian followg and I’m proud of ’em, I love ’em and I thk everybody should be themselv and be allowed to be themselv whoever they are, whatever they are, ” she said.

DOLLY PARTON TALKS ABOUT SUPPORTG HER GAY FANS

The untry mic legend ss down wh Billboard to talk about her reer and why she supports her gay followers * dolly parton gay rights *

“I certaly know that the gay people I know are the most sensive and most rg of all. Most of the gays I know jt want to make the world a more betiful place like I do. In her 1991 song “Fay, ” Parton sang, “Some are preachers / some are gay / some are addicts, dnks and strays / But not a one is turned away when ’s fay.

In 2011, when a woman at a Dollywood amement park was told to turn her pro-marriage equaly T-shirt si-out, Dolly Parton personally apologized, sayg, “Everyone knows of my personal support of the gay and lbian muny.

DOLLY PARTON SAYS COUNTRY MIC COMMUNY EMBRACG GAY LISTENERS MORE THAN THEY USED TO

However, she has embraced her gay fans. In a 2016 New York Tim terview, Parton said, “I have a huge gay followg, and I’m proud of them. As far back as 1991, at the height of the AIDS crisis, her Eagle When She Fli LP clud the song, “Fay, ” which noted, rather matter-of-factly, that some fai clu members who are gay – a simple, yet bold step at the time.

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